MARY R. S. ANDREWS is the author of many stories and has been recently a contributor of verse also. Her name is known the world over as the author of "The Perfect Tribute," a story of Lincoln that year after year is bought and read by thousands. Mrs. Andrews's only son has joined the colors and is wearing the khaki in one of the officers' training camps. Her husband is Judge W. S. Andrews, of the New York Court of Appeals, a position his father once held.

L. ALLEN HARKER is an Englishwoman and the author of a number of books of stories, most of them dealing with delightfully interesting groups of both grown-ups and children. Among well-known volumes are "Concerning Paul and Fiammetta," "Mr.

Minister at The Hague have been among the most widely read and quoted of the comments on the Germans and the war.

WILLIAM KAY WALLACE is very widely known as the author of an authoritative book on "Greater Italy." He knows the Italian people thoroughly.

Wycherly's Wards," "A Romance of the Nursery." A new edition of the latter has been recently published with an additional chapter.

JOHN GALSWORTHY is one of the foremost of English novelists. His novel "Beyond" has been one of the notable recent successes and has received high commendation from the leading critics. He has written much about the

war.

HENRY VAN DYKE has been known for years as a foremost figure in American letters, and his recent articles about his experiences as United States

TEMPLE BAILEY is Miss Irene Temple Bailey, of Washington, D. C., and was born in Virginia. She is the author of short stories and of successful novels.

GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER is the author of a notable work, "William Wordsworth, His Life, Works, and Influence." Professor Harper and his son have only recently returned from serving in the American hospital in Paris.

JOHN MYERS O'HARA is the author of several volumes of poetry, including "The Poems of Sappho," "Songs of the Open," and "Manhattan," that have met with much favor.

CHARLES W. KENNEDY is a professor in the English department of Princeton University.

other books have had nation-wide popularity. See announcement on page 30.

ham and was honorary secretary of the Ruskin memorial. He was in Belgium in 1914 for the assistance of the civil population.

CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON is a sister of Theodore Roosevelt. She is the author of two volumes of poems.

Several paragraphs about MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT have been published in these notes. He spends his winters in California, his summers on a big Wyoming ranch.

THEODORA BATES COGSWELL lives in Massachusetts. She has

MEREDITH NICHOLSON is one of the most widely known and successful of American novelists. He was born in Indiana and makes his home in Indianapolis. His "The House of a Thousand

THOMAS WALSH is a well-known critic and writer of verse. His home is in Brooklyn, N. Y.

O. R. GEYER is a Western journalist who has come East to write for the magazines on public and social questions.

which was open to natives of sixteen States and to works of either prose or poetry, were Talcott Williams, Dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia; Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College; and John H. Finley, State Commissioner of Education in New York. Mrs. Dargan's three volumes of poetical dramas, "The Mortal Gods and Other Dramas," "Lords and Lovers and Other Dramas," and "Semiramis and Other Dramas," denoting a literary descent from the great Elizabethans, might suggest an early life spent in some highly cultivated centre; but that is not the case. She was born in Grayson County, Kentucky, and went to the public schools, in which her father and mother were continuously teachers, until she was ten years old. Then, with her parents, she moved to the town of Doniphan, Missouri, where she stayed for four years. But at the age

of fourteen she herself became a teacher in the backwoods of Arkansas, a region of hills and streams. Through these years she had always hoped for a college education, but when she became eighteen her mother died; her father, now an invalid, returned to Kentucky and her chance seemed lost. She was determined, however, and finally obtained a Peabody scholarship, which took her to the University of Nashville, Tennessee. Two years later she was graduated and went back to teaching, this time in Missouri and then in Texas. But her appetite for education was strong, and she found means to take a year at Radcliffe in 1894 for the study of English and philosophy. A year later she turned again to teaching and got a place at the Acadia Seminary, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Later she married a young South Carolinian, a Harvard student whom she had met while at Radcliffe. Recently she has lived in Boston. In all these years of varied occupation she has also engaged in the production of poetry.